thanks Tony
I get tired with the faff of uploading and then copying codes from photobucket, so I use the upload from computer facility. maybe that is the reason?
My pictures are resized on my computer to 800 thingies wide and saved as jpegs. Then I click the 'insert image' icon, then 'from computer', then 'choose file'; from there I find the image and click that, followed by 'upload image' and then it appears in my thread (well, to me!)
there should now be a picture of a kitchen knife in here uploaded the same way